Re: [docbook-apps] before i forget, a summary so far

[Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:25:14PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Bob Stayton wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:37:29PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > 
> > >   before all this starts to blur together, the observations over
> > > the past day or so related to generating PDF via xsltproc and FOP:
> > >
> > > [stuff deleted]
> > >
> > > <variablelist>:
> > > 
> > >     also, at least for me, trying to display two terms /bin and /usr/bin
> > >   for the same <varlistentry> produced the PDF output:
> > > 
> > >     /bin,/
> > >     usr/bin
> > > 
> > >   i have no idea where the intermediate space went.
> > 
> > I looked at this some more.  The space is not getting
> > lost, it is appearing in the output if you look
> > closely.  But FOP is choosing to break the line
> > that is too long at a weird point.  It isn't
> > hyphenating, because there is no hyphen.
> > It is just breaking the line at an arbitrary point
> > to get it to fit in the space that is too narrow.
> > XEP manages to break the line on the space, BTW.
> 
> so i should register this as a bug with the FOP folks, 
> then?  i can do that, before i go back to finding more
> bugs. :-)

I think so.  It really should break on the
space since it is available.

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